1940s, Pershing Square’s Spanish-American War Memorial (part 1), Lady McDonald Residence – 321 South Bunker Hill Avenue, Hershey Residence/Castle Towers – 350 South Grand/750 West Fourth, The Salt Box – 339 South Bunker Hill Avenue, CRA Relocation Offices – 232 South Grand Avenue, Looking Backward: Depopulating Pershing Square, 2012-1954, Nov. 3, 1908: Election Day on Bunker Hill. | Robert Bray, Los Angeles of the late 1940s seemed to be the right place at the right time for noir filmmakers. Stars: | A series of murders involving a stripper (Indus Arthur) are investigated by a hard-drinking reporter (William Thourlby) in this late-entry film-noir. Gail Russell, BarBara Luna, Fred Zinnemann | Jim Backus, | Director: Her books include Fall in Love For Life, Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth, Lost in the Grooves and an oral history of Neutral Milk Hotel. 79 min | | Charlize Theron, Votes: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. Kenneth W. Richardson Robert Siodmak Laurie Metcalf, Votes: | | Related. Kiss Me Deadly is the black-hearted apotheosis of film noir, and a key film of the 50s, embodying the profoundest anxieties of Eisenhower's America: … 115 min Ross Elliott, Approved What is easier to agree upon is the important role that L.A. plays in noir storytelling; with one neighborhood in particular, Bunker Hill, taking center stage. Biography, Crime, Drama. | Carol Kane, 115 min Howard Da Silva, Nancy Guild, Yvonne Williams, A series of murders involving a stripper (Indus Arthur) are investigated by a hard-drinking reporter (William Thourlby) in this late-entry film-noir. Ken Leung, | An embittered, vengeful POW stalks his former commanding officer who betrayed his men's planned escape attempt from a Nazi prison camp. Marian Carr, Stars: Director: Joyce Meadows, 60 min Stars: Cornel Wilde, Gene Nelson, Theodore Bikel, Not Rated 72 min Kathleen Gallant, 94 min Joan Bennett, Patricia Knight, Robert Aldrich When the third generation Angeleno isn’t combing old newspapers for forgotten scandals, she is a passionate advocate for historic preservation of signage, vernacular architecture and writer’s homes. Roy Roberts, Approved Vincent Sherman Mickey Shaughnessy, Chris Tucker, | | Gross: | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller. Adrian Verduzco, Glenn Ford, Stars: Christopher Nolan | Jayne Meadows, TV-MA PG-13 Chirag Patel, 30 min Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. Luther Adler, Approved Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. Gloria Grahame, A woman sculptor and her live model try to suppress their ... See full summary », Director: David Miller Stars: Proposed building project for Bunker Hill (unrealized), 1950 Herald-Examiner Collection, Los Angeles Public Library. Stars: Director: Stars: The film was written by Daniel Fuchs. Edmond O'Brien, Brent Wisener, Crime, Drama, Thriller. James Stewart, | | | | Director: David Wayne, Action, Comedy, Crime. Judy Garland, Rico Rodriguez, Votes: Steve Guttenberg, Stars: 73 min Douglas Sirk Kim Cooper is the creator of 1947project, the crime-a-day time travel blog that spawned Esotouric’s popular crime bus tours, including The Real Black Dahlia. Encke King, $33.88M, Unrated | Buy Los Angeles's Bunker Hill: Pulp Fiction's Mean Streets and Film Noir's Ground Zero! Tom Tully, Approved John Huston’s 1941 hardboiled detective film The Maltese Falcon is generally cited as the start of a cycle of American films known for their dark themes and stylized visuals. A clumsy young man nurtures a plant and discovers that it's carnivorous, forcing him to kill to feed it. Michael Winslow, Votes: The story of Bunker Hill on film is a tangle of film production and urban history, in which the neighborhood was used as much to provide crime films with a sense of seedy local color, as it was to provide filmmakers with a convenient downtown ‘backlot’ of varied building types and great views of the city (particularly City Hall). By the mid to late 1960s, however, most of Bunker Hill’s buildings were down and “space age” L.A. was on the rise; tastes were different and crime stories had found a new home on the small screen. Titus Welliver, | Victor Saville, John Farrow Leslie Brooks, Passed Adventure, Drama, Thriller, A pathetic Joe (Nick Nickerson) pays a bitter prostitute, Margo (Althea Curier) to have sex with him, and is abused endlessly. | Stars: Stars: John Baragrey, Sally Forrest, | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. Jim McKay 79 min | Author: Kim Cooper. | Edward G. Robinson, Albert Dekker, Teenage punks slice and dice each other, turn innocent young ... See full summary », Directors: Phyllis Kirk, | 84 min Harry Morgan, Director: | Documentary, History. A Parole Officer falls in-love with his client, a ravishing blonde who served time for murder, and he's determined to help her go straight despite her interfering criminal boyfriend. Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi. | Juano Hernandez, Not Rated | Stars: Steve Sekely, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller. Director: Kim was for many years the editrix of Scram, a journal of unpopular culture. Lew Ayres, Stars: 69 min James Mason, Sam Raimi Criss Cross is a 1949 American film noir crime film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo and Dan Duryea, from Don Tracy's novel of the same name. Althea Currier, 77 min Jackie Joseph, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi. | Bubba Smith, Roger Corman | Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Where the local press and authorities saw slum conditions, Hollywood saw the qualities of authenticity needed for an emerging genre of on-location, documentary-style crime pictures. Steve Warren, Lt. Weston helped turn a former gang member into a cop and now needs Maris' help to clear the officer of a murder charge. | | Charles Davis, | Gross: Comedy. Anne Hathaway, Director: A thief who stole $250,000 gets out of prison, and the man he stole the money from hires Ross to follow him and get it back. | Inspired in part by pulp magazine stories of the day, the film noir image of Bunker Hill as a haven for criminal activity is not the reason the neighborhood was eventually leveled to make way for parking lots and banks—but it certainly could not have helped. 110 min Charles Bickford, Votes: Back home in Los Angeles, while trying to track down his old identity, he stumbles onto a 3-year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million. | $141.15M, PG-13 Edward Norton, | Gross: | Director: Gerald Mohr, Stars: Action, Crime, Thriller. | | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Follows a family of Native Americans living in the City of Angels. Richard Erdman, A loyal and dedicated Hong Kong Inspector teams up with a reckless and loudmouthed L.A.P.D. | Sadly, both buildings were lost to fire, presumably by arson, only eight months later. Directors: Raymond Nassour, Kenneth W. Richardson | Stars: William Thourlby, Warren J. Kemmerling, Michael Fox, Kathleen Gallant. Macdonald Carey, –Julie Byrne, Los Angeles Times, July 22, 1965. 82 min Joseph Cotten, Approved Robert Parrish Director: by Deborah Sorensen. 50,678 Comedy. Jay Novello, R Discover (and save!) Nancy Guild, James Drury, | Film Noir is a slippery construct that inspires debates over style, story, context, and time period. Stars: Elmer Clifton, Hail Ketchum, | Director: Two New Mann Images — Final Days of the Flight! | Gross: Mark Damon, Director: | | Gross: | $21.41M, PG-13 Charles S. Dubin Gary Oldman, Votes: When a new gang moves into town it's up to the screwball police team to stop them. After a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out-of-wedlock baby, her guilt compels her to kidnap another child. Stars: Stars: Anthony Mann Elke Sommer, Lance Reddick. Its turn of the century gingerbread homes and funiculars offered a stark, nostalgia-laced, contrast to the well-dressed criminals who drove new cars and conspired inside anonymous apartment buildings.